The Rover
The DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama is presenting the BA Drama (Performance) graduate production of ‘The Rover’ by Aphra Behn in the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College from March 8-11, 7.30pm; Matinee on Saturday, March 11 at 2pm; previewing on International Women’s Day (March 8) and reigniting the voice of female playwright Aphra Behn.
Tickets are €15 (€12 concession) and are available at https://www.tcd.ie/beckett-theatre/
In ‘The Rover’, it’s carnival time in the Mediterranean. Three strong-willed Spanish women disguise themselves in search of desirable men. They happen upon three lusty English cavaliers. When a famous Italian courtesan arrives in town, female and male desires converge in an explosion of love, deception and intrigue.
For more information on the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama and to keep up to date with its events visit www.dit.ie/conservatory/ or follow on @DITConservatory.
Sutton Craft Fair
The Genuine Craft Fair is holding a craft fair this Sunday, March 12 in the Marine Hotel, Sutton, from 10am to 4pm. Admission is free.
The fair will have a wide variety of unique art and crafts, jewellery, patchwork, sculpture, knitting, crochet, cross stich, painting, stain glass, painted glass, face and body products, wood turning and baking.
Losing Ground
To mark International Women’s Day on Wednesday, March 8, the Irish Film Institute (IFI) will screen pioneering African-American director Kathleen Collins’s ‘Losing Ground’, with an introduction by Dr Zelia Asava at 6.30pm.
After being heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement during the 1960s, Collins went on to write several plays and screenplays. Her best-known work is the 1982 film, ‘Losing Ground’. Largely forgotten for the last 35 years, the film resurfaced in 2015, finally getting a release and the critical acclaim it so richly deserved from noted critics such as Charles Burnett, Ashley Clark, Richard Brody, and AO Scott amongst others.
Tickets for the screening of ‘Losing Ground’ are available at www.ifi.ie or by calling the IFI Box Office on 01-6793477.
Old Dublin Society lecture
The Spring 2017 programme of the Old Dublin Society continues on Wednesday, March 8, at 6pm in the Conference Room of Dublin City Library & Archive, 138-144 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, when Mark Davis, from Oxford, UK, will present his lecture on ‘King of all Balloons: the first flight across the Irish Sea to Holyhead in 1817, and other aerial escapades’. All are welcome and admission is free.
The Oxford pastry cook and confectioner James Sadler (1753–1828) was the unlikely first Englishman ever to ascend in an air balloon, in 1784, and very nearly the first person ever to make an aerial crossing of the Irish Sea.
This talk will focus on his dramatic failed attempt from Dublin in 1812 and his son’s successful crossing of five years later, almost exactly 200 years ago.
Dead Interesting tour
Glasnevin Cemetery has launched a new ‘Dead Interesting’ tour that brings the forgotten stories of Ireland’s lesser-known characters back to life.
The 90-minute walk around the graves, architecture, stone carvings and nature of the historic site is aimed at both newcomers to Glasnevin and those who’ve been on the regular tour before.
The tour costs €10 for students and seniors and €13 for adults. It can be booked online at www.glasnevinmuseum.ie or at the museum itself and runs daily from March 1.
Heffo’s Army – The Rise of Dublin GAA
This new exhibition at the Little Museum of Dublin opens this week and is dedicated to the late Kevin ‘Heffo’ Heffernan – former Dublin manager, and one of the greatest Gaelic footballers of all-time.
Looking at the development of the GAA in Dublin from the early 20th century through the tumultuous rivalry between Dublin and Kerry in the late 1970s, the exhibition explores the impact that Dublin’s fortunes have had on the GAA, the changing fan culture in the city and the enormously positive legacy of Heffo, his players and the fans.
Presented in association with New Ireland Assurance and the RTÉ Archives, visitors will get a once in a lifetime opportunity to see rare footage and photographs from the period, as well as personal memorabilia from fans and players alike.
The exhibition runs from March 2 to May 28.
Shape the Future
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) will host the ‘Shape the Future’ exhibition at the NCAD Gallery, 100 Thomas Street, from this week until March 20.
Shape the Future provides a chance to see new work by 20 of Ireland’s most exciting and creative designer-makers, who have been awarded Design & Craft Council of Ireland’s Future Makers prizes and development funding over the past seven years.
The Future Makers Awards provide support for the next generation of makers to learn, experience, investigate, develop, create and shape the future of Irish craft and design.
For more information, including opening hours, visit www.ncad.ie/about/gallery/.
This Lime Tree Bower
A tour of Conor McPhersons’ award winning play, ‘This Lime Tree Bower’ will take in two dates, March 7 and 8, at the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire.
Starring Peter Daly (The Mario Rosenstock Show), Stephen Jones (Love/Hate) and David Fennelly (Killing Bono) This Lime Tree Bower is a poignant and funny tale told through three interlinking monologues from the author of ‘The Weir’.
This Lime Tree Bower first premiered in 1995. Originally produced and directed at the Crypt Theatre, Dublin by McPherson himself, it later transferred to the Bush Theatre, London. This version premiered in Project Arts Centre, Dublin in February 2016.
The play follows three young men from a small seaside town near Dublin who tell of their inextricably linked lives and the eventful week which was to change things for good.
For more information see www.thislimetreebower.com
Real Bodies
This exhibition explores life by displaying real, 14 perfectly preserved human bodies and more than 200 anatomical specimens.
Real Bodies is designed to connect audiences to a deeper sense of what it means to be alive.
Founded on anatomical, cultural, and emotional narratives, the exhibition transforms the way we view the mysterious organism we all share – the human body – and reminds us of all the complexity and magic within us that we often take for granted.
It’s happening at the Ambassador Theatre from Friday, March 10, for a limited time only.